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Weddingbells.ca Message Board Community Rules

Here at Weddingbells.ca we are dedicated to providing a polite and fun community where brides can openly discuss their wedding planning process and share information and ideas. As with any internet community, there are a few basic rules that must be followed to ensure that your Weddingells.ca online community experience is a safe and good one.

Our message boards are moderated on a regular basis and are strictly governed by a set of community rules. By posting on our message boards, you are in agreement that you accept these rules as part of Weddingbells’ terms and conditions. If at any time, the moderaters or the admin of this forum feel you are not abiding by these rules, they can/will revoke your membership with or without warning.

First and foremost, maintain a friendly tone and be respectful when posting topics or replying to threads in every post you make.

The Weddingbells.ca message board community is meant to be an inviting and pleasant place, where brides are welcomed and friendships are formed.

Neither St. Joseph Media, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries, including Weddingbells, shall be responsible for any material posted on this forum. You agree to maintain a friendly tone and be respectful when posting topics or replying to threads in every post you make. The Interactive Areas on the Website are meant to be inviting and pleasant places, where members feel welcomed. In using the Website, you further agree not to engage in any acts or submit any content which: (a) libels, defames, invades privacy or is obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent, abusive or threatening; (b) infringes any intellectual property or other right of any entity or person, including, but not limited to, violating any person’s copyrights or trade-marks; (c) violates any law or advocates or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, giving rise to civil liability, or otherwise violates any local, provincial or federal law; (d) uses any automated means to access the site or collect any information from the site; (e) uses programs, cookies, web bugs or tracking technologies; (f) collects any personal information about users through the Website, including, but not limited to, their username or password; (g) publishes or uses files or processes that pose a threat to the proper technical operation of the system or to the security of other Members; (h) customizes the Website in a way that adversely affects the display of any advertising or promotional links on the Website; (i) requests search engines to crawl or index any portion of the Website; (j) speaks on behalf St. Joseph Media or Weddingbells describing yourself as an employee of same; (k) includes contact or personal information about another individual without their permission; (l) harasses another Member; (m) advertises or otherwise solicits funds, goods or services; or (n) contains harmful content, including a virus, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

Neither St. Joseph Media, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries, including Weddingbells, have an obligation to monitor this forum. However, St. Joseph Media and any of its affiliates or subsidiaries reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, and further reserves the right to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that St. Joseph Media, or its affiliates or subsidiaries, in their sole discretion, deems objectionable or in violation of these community rules, including, without limitation, posts, information or materials that contain:

1. Comments that flame someone for his or her opinions. We all think differently and may not agree with others opinions. If you disagree with someone, please agree to disagree - nicely. Do not get personal with someone regarding an opinion that you may not agree with. Name-calling and insulting of other posters is not permitted. Please remember in your replies to follow the golden rule of posting: “If you wouldn’t say it to them in person, don’t say it here!”
2. Racial or ethnic slurs, sexism, slander and bad/offensive language. If you see language or read a post that you consider personally offensive, please report it to support@weddingbells.ca. Please everyone, let’s work together to keep it clean and friendly!
3. Issues/scandals/drama that happen within un-related chatroom, message board or online communities or forums (“Other Interactive Areas”). Weddingbells recognizes that many of its Members may have and employ active memberships within such Other Interactive Areas, and we fully respect a Member’s right to do so. However, we request that any issues/scandals/drama that may be happening within these Other Interactive Areas remain where they are.
4. Hyperlinking, linking or uploading of illegal content or content that Weddingbells deems, in its sole discretion, to be disruptive, harmful or otherwise to Weddingbells and/or its Members, including but not limited to materials relating to:
   • Pornography or strongly sexually suggestive material
   • Illegal drugs and drug use
   • Committing crimes or making weapons or explosives
   • Pirated software, music, or other media, including modern commercial game emulation, file sharing networks and ways of circumventing copy protection.
5. Voicing your personal grievances. If there is an instance where a Member is causing problems or doing something inappropriate on a topic or post, please do not respond to the post. This just bumps it back up to the top of the board and draws more attention to it. Instead, please email support@weddingbells.ca and we will quickly do what we can to resolve the matter at hand.
6. Spam, or spam-related activities. Please do not spam.
7. Vendor-related concerns and complaints. This online forum was primarily created to connect engaged couples in the Canadian wedding community to share experiences, express opinions and heed advice. Occasionally, members post topics regarding personal experiences they have encountered with vendors in their local community. Weddingbells is not responsible for ANY comments made by members with regard to services rendered - either positive or negative. We discourage participating in conversations that can adversely affect the livelihood of wedding professionals when you have not had the direct experience yourself (in other words...no hearsay). If a comment is posted in any Interactive Areas by a Member that is subject to question by the vendor, Weddingbells reserves the right to remove the post if requested to do so, by either the vendor, another Member, or its legal counsel. Members who choose to dispute Weddingbells decision to remove a post by reposting similar topics and grievances can and will have their membership revoked with or without warning.
8. Materials that infringe intellectual property or other rights of an entity or person. St. Joseph Media is not in a position to arbitrate any copyright, trade-mark or other intellectual property or other disputes between the advertisers or users of the Website and the owners of such intellectual property, or other parties to the dispute. St. Joseph Media encourages you to resolve your dispute directly with the advertiser or other party. Moreover, St. Joseph Media does not control nor does it assume responsibility for content that appears on a third party's website that may be accessed through the Website. You should contact third party sites to resolve all disputes.
9. Double logins (multiple accounts) are prohibited.
10. No advertising, spamming or scams. This is not a public noticeboard for you to advertise on. This includes, but is not limited to:
    • Pyramid and other MLM schemes, referral programs and money scams
    • Passing through the board to advertise your service, event, contest, or competition - even if your link seems to correspond to the theme of the message board.

St. Joseph Media’s right to disclose any information pursuant to legitimate legal, regulatory or governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, to protect St. Joseph Media’s systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of St. Joseph Media’s business and systems, shall govern over any terms of St. Joseph Media’s or Weddingbells’ Privacy Policy.

St. Joseph Media further reserve the right at all times to revoke posting privileges by a Member if such a Member engages in further offences.

St. Joseph Media does not take any responsibility, nor does it assume any liability for any content contained on the Website, whether posted, stored or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor shall St. Joseph Media be, in any way, liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity that you may encounter.

The opinions expressed in this forum do not necessarily reflect the opinions of St. Joseph Media, Weddingbells or their employees. St. Joseph Media shall not be held responsible for any opinions expressed on the Website, nor can it be held responsible for the personal safety of its Members.

Signature Content
In order to assist with load times and maximize enjoyment of the boards during peak usage and for users with low bandwidth, the rules regarding acceptable signature content in our forum areas are as follows:

• members are limited to a maximum of 3 lines of text, in addition to 2 of the following:
• one (1) "blinkie" no larger than 150 x 20
• one (1) "ticker"
• one (1) "smiley" or small image no larger than 200x200 pixels in dimensions and no larger than 20 Kb (20,480 bytes) in file size

Violators will have their signature edited accordingly. If you wish to include a picture please place such images in your profile or size them appropriately and use them as an avatar. By doing so, you warrant and represent to St. Joseph Media that you are the owner of copyright in the photographs.

Registration
In order to use these forums, users are required to provide a username and password. Neither the Administrators of these forums, or the Moderators participating, are responsible for the privacy practices of any user. Remember that all information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to share any of your personal information. Any user who finds material posted by another user objectionable is encouraged to contact us via e-mail. We are authorized by you to remove or modify any data submitted by you to these forums for any reason we feel constitutes a violation of our policies, whether stated, implied or not.

This site may contain links to other web sites and files. We have no control over the content and can not ensure it will not be offensive or objectionable. We will, however, remove links to material that we feel is inappropriate as we become aware of them.

Cookies must be turned on in your browser to participate as a user in these forums. Cookies are used here to hold your username and password and viewing options, allowing you to login.

By becoming a member here, you also agree that you will not post any copyrighted material that is not owned by yourself or the owners of these forums. In your use of these forums, you agree that you will not post any information which is vulgar, harassing, hateful, threatening, invading of others privacy, sexually oriented, or violates any laws.

Vendor Policy
Any member of our community, including brides involved in a wedding related business or a Wedding professional involved in a wedding-related enterprise cannot post any information on the Weddingbells.ca message boards, including offering services free of charge.

Vendors are not permitted as Wedding Professionals to post within the forums; however, are permitted to utilize the forums in a similar fashion as our brides. The forums are a venue for like-minded brides to exchange wedding planning ideas, thoughts, concerns, etc. and connect with others who are experiencing the same life stage event for support and camaraderie.

Weddingbells will not tolerate any posts made advertising your business including links to your website, business email address or the use of logos. If you wish to advertise with us on Weddingbells.ca please contact us at RetailSales@weddingbells.ca or log onto http://www.weddingbells.ca/advertise/. We appreciate your understanding as we make this change and look forward to building our community with you.

Any professional found soliciting business of any kind, anywhere throughout the forums within the board can and will have their posts deleted immediately and their membership revoked at anytime without warning.

If you are a wedding professional but are also in the midst of planning your own wedding or would like to take part in general discussion, please feel free to participate in sections of the board using a personal profile, and do not refer to your professional profile at any time. You also cannot post any links to your professional website, emails and photos or promotional material anywhere through out the forum.

In your personal profile, feel free to disclose your wedding date or where you are getting married and any other personal information you wish to disclose. DO NOT use a company name in your signature or link your business in your personal profile. Any member found to be promoting their professional profile can and will have their membership revoked immediately without warning.